Katie Porter explains Spending VS Investing in a Very Katie Porter Way

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Speaker 1: And very Happy. Tuesday two at twelve oh six in the West, It's the John and Phillips Show, Mister Randy Waggings in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter is that with their latest YouTube video where she wants to educate the voters on the difference between spending and investing in the most Katie Porter way possible.

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Speaker 3: I want to think about distinguishing between two different things in our budget.

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Speaker 4: One is what I'm going to call spending.

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Speaker 3: This is when you decide, you know what I need that croissant.

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Speaker 1: She does this to herself, John, It's never a tire, it's never a new pair of shoes, it's never a raincoat. It's always food.

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Speaker 2: With her, in her defense, food is the most relatable topic there is.

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Speaker 3: Please, I want to think about distinguishing two different things in our budget.

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Speaker 5: One is what I'm gonna call spend.

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Speaker 3: It this is when you decide, you know what I need that croissant.

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Speaker 1: You can't write this.

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Speaker 4: I'm pulling in to the bakery.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, does the bakery have a drive through?

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Speaker 3: I need that croissant. I'm pulling in to the bakery. That's spending.

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Speaker 1: Maybe when she pulls in with that mini van. It's like when one of those seven elevens get robbed in Oakland, where they just drive through the wall. She doesn't want to bother waiting in line, so she just goes right through the front door.

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Speaker 2: Knowing what we know now that Katie Porter enjoys a flaky croissant. How many breadcrumbs are on the floor of that mini van.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's just a regular crashan or do you think it's filled with ham and cheese? Those are the best all.

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Speaker 3: Right, investing is when you decide, you know what, I'm gonna go get that certificate.

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Speaker 4: That in that additional degree program.

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Speaker 5: The state does both kinds of things we do spending.

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Speaker 4: We could do with this shear.

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Speaker 5: We could drive past the bakery, or we could buy the persant.

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Speaker 2: Oh I think she might have skipped breakfast today.

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Speaker 1: She might have.

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Speaker 5: The state does both kinds of things we do.

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Speaker 4: Spending. We could do with this shear.

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Speaker 5: We could drive past the bakery, or we could buy the person.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out who this ad is for. I mean, I know the California electorate is fairly dumb, but are they this dumb that they don't understand this distinction.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there's a big French population somewhere.

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Speaker 5: The state does both kinds of things. We do spending.

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Speaker 4: We could do it this year.

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Speaker 5: We could drive past the bakery, or we could buy the croissant.

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Speaker 3: And we do invest in things like education, things like our UC system, our cal state system, things like science and research. Those are investments. They return dollar after dollar multiples. Our workforce is an investment. You have to protect that in the toughest times. When you fail to invest, not only do you not get those multiples overturn, you actually get the other direction. It saves you a dollar in a year one and cost shift three in year.

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Speaker 1: Two, and then you can't afford any croissants. No croissants for you.

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Speaker 2: There's a reason why I'm subscribed to Katie Porter's YouTube channel, and it's for gems like that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe what it is. I don't think there's a large French population in California. We're not Louisiana. But you know who makes a mean croissant? Who's that? The Vietnamese? Oh yeah, the Vietnamese are very good with the pastries.

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Speaker 2: Well, and there's huge Vietnamese communities in Orange County and San Jose all around the state. I'm from Garden Grove. I'm very familiar with that.

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Speaker 1: My favorite coffee place in Olive, Orange County, Vietnamese coffee whose name I can't even say on the air because you would bleed me.

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Speaker 2: It's not one of those Garden Grove coffee places that tries to pretend it's a strip club, is it.

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Speaker 1: No, it's actually a chain and it's really popular. It's on Main Street and Garden Grove. First word phuc, second word long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's not pronounce that one. Well, Katie's in Orange County. Maybe she gets the croissant there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I would like to see her at mister Long place. So there you go.

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Speaker 2: In case you weren't aware of the difference between spending and investing, Spending is buying a croissant. Investing is giving the money to the Teachers' union.

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Speaker 1: Did you draw a picture of the croissant on the whiteboard? She did not? All right. We also have an update on another one of our favorites, Dana. I need a new Liver Williamson.

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Speaker 2: Dana Williamson, the former chief of staff for Governor Gavin Newsom, the one that was indicted on several charges of a scheme to steal money from Javier Bakeria's campaign account to go on a fancy Mexican vacation and buy a whole bunch of handbags. Well, it turns out when she left Gavin's office, she got a big old payout because Dana never used any of her vacation time.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, how in the world is it that this woman didn't use any of her PTO when she was on the list for a new liver. Don't you have a million doctor's appointments to go to? You know, I'm sure the way California has their benefits for their state employees, you probably get as much sick time as you want, which is different than your PTO, which companies are legally required to pay you out of when you quit or get fired. But if you go over your sick days, don't companies usually allow you to take vacation days for doctor's appointments. This is the state.

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Speaker 2: Also, who's to say that she actually called in sick those days? Maybe she just said she was working remotely from the waiting room. You know, with the way that this woman threw her weight around in Sacramento, I'm surprised the moment she knew and realized that she needed a new liver.

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Speaker 1: She didn't get Gavin to repeal that helmet law for motorcycle riders.

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Speaker 2: For mar On, Dana Williamson getting an over fifty one thousand dollars payout upon leaving Gavin's office amid the FBI probe. Here's Fox forty in Sacramento.

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Speaker 6: New Today, controversy has erupted around Governor Gavin I.

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Speaker 1: Like that intro music. It ends quickly.

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Speaker 6: New Today controversy has erupted around Governor Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson. New data shows she cashed more than sixty thousand dollars in unused vacation administrative leave.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of vacation time, sixty thousand dollars and she didn't even work there that long. And what exactly is administrative leave? I thought that's if you get pregnant or something.

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Speaker 6: New data shows she cashed more than sixty thousand dollars in unused vacation administrative leave after departing.

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Speaker 1: From the news Actually, administrative leave is when you say something racist.

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Speaker 2: And that's money that you can get paid out of. As well, if you want to know why the state of California is spending more money than ever yet everything seems to be getting worse, it's because of sweetheart deals with the bureaucrats within the administration, like Dana Williamson.

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Speaker 1: And like she needs sixty thousand more dollars. Do you know how many cocktails that'll buy you at happy hour.

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Speaker 6: After departing from the news administration, even as she exited during a federal public corruption probe.

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Speaker 2: By the way, in case you were curious, you know how much Dana Williamson was paid, including benefits, for working for Gavin Newsom in twenty twenty four, three hundred and thirteen thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: And keep in mind, when people would comment on her legal troubles and corruption scandal, they would say that she would get lit at night and call up people randomly in Sacramento and threaten them on behalf of the governor.

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Speaker 2: Apparently, especially when you look at the timing, she was doing that to anybody that was speaking out in support of Prop thirty six, which means she probably called and yelled at Mayhan, and she probably called and yelled at London Breed.

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Speaker 7: If you are not here, fomo.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I'm one of these people that believes in karma, and if you're going to be a nasty woman like that, eventually you're gonna get yours. So listen, sweetheart, I know that you're collecting all of that leave, you're collecting all of that unused vacation time. You're really cashing in and taking advantage of the taxpayers of the state of California. Well, I hope you use some of that money to pay your internet bill so you can sit in front of that computer or yours and you can watch YouTube video after YouTube video after YouTube video, so you know how to make the best toilet tank wine. In prison, you can be the bar Turtles and James of whatever ladies prison they put you in, and you can be the Somalia. You can even call it. Let's just say plump Jack since you worked with the founder. But that's what you're going to spend your time doing, lady, because guess what, the gravy train is over, at least for you. And because Gavin's running for president, he's going to want no part of you. So he's going to treat you like you have cancer that's contagious and even though you think your buddies with him, and even though you think you're BFFs and all of that, he's going to drop you like a bad habit.

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Speaker 6: State records show Williamson accumulated four hundred and sixty two hours of unused leave in less than two years and.

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Speaker 1: Continue, how wait, how many days is that? Well, that's why none of them are ever in the office. Four hund or four hundred and sixty two hours.

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Speaker 6: State records show Williamson accumulated four hundred and sixty two hours of.

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Speaker 2: Four hundred and sixty two hours, and you know, forty hours in a week.

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Speaker 1: So she had.

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Speaker 2: Twelve weeks of vacation in just two years of working there.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to miss that many days of work, you better be playing third base for the Angels. Again, how generous are these packages?

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Speaker 2: What company gives you that many weeks of vacation in your first year?

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Speaker 1: It's totally ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: And we know that she did go on vacations, including the fancy one in Mexico.

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Speaker 1: Oh, don't forget the cruise when she set sail with Captain Morgan.

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Speaker 6: State records show Williamson accumulated four hundred and sixty two hours of unused leave in less than two years, and continued receiving about thirty thousand dollars in.

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Speaker 2: Pay for sure now, and you know this, The way the scam works with a lot of state employees and city employees as well, is when you know you're about to retire, you don't use any of your vacation time because you will get that big payout at the end of the When you retire, you get the big payout and that counts as your final year's salary, which increases your overall pension.

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Speaker 1: You think she's going to blow all this money on her criminal defense, Well, she might be blowing it on something else.

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Speaker 2: Guinness today, I would imagine Guinness is honestly one of the weaker beers out there. She's probably doing an Irish car bomb where you drop a Jamison into a Guinness.

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Speaker 6: Oh my, and continued receiving about thirty If.

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Speaker 1: You do those and you're over twenty five, you have a problem. What do you call people who take buttery nippleshots pass.

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Speaker 6: And continued receiving about thirty thousand dollars in pay for seven weeks after leaving before what's that about?

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Speaker 1: Is there just an endless supply of money up there.

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Speaker 2: The California state budget is one hundred and seventy five billion dollars more than it was when Gavin took office. And you wonder where all the money's going. Well, it turns out a whole bunch of it went to this hack staffer.

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Speaker 6: Before cashing out her lump sum leave payout. She's now been investigated in a federal corruption case alleging she participated in a scheme to divert funds from a dormant campaign account belonging to former US Health and Human Services secretary.

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Speaker 1: And wait, that's not his job.

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Speaker 3: No for Secretary of Health and Educations over I nominated Jabier Bakaria.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the correction. Not his name, not his.

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Speaker 6: Job, California attorney job.

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Speaker 1: That was in the early days of Biden. And it was early in the day too.

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Speaker 6: California Attorney General Jabier Bisera. Williamson has pled not guilty to all other charges against her, including bank and wirefraud and LA Times investigation also found the state paid roughly four hundred and fifty three million dollars in unused leave leave benefits to state workers in twenty twenty five, with many cashing out large balances when they exited office.

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Speaker 2: That's the pension scam right there, and that's why we're not properly budgeted for any of our pensions. Because this is what state employees do. They save up all their vacation time. They probably use six days to go on actual vacation, and then it's a massive lump sum when they leave and their pension gets bumped up massively.

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Speaker 1: Who could afford to pay all of that?

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Speaker 6: Apparently us leave benefits to state workers. In twenty twenty five, with many cashing out large balances when they exited office.

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Speaker 2: Of the California state budget, which is again three hundred and fifty billion dollars, nearly five hundred million dollars went to just paying out vacation on retirease.

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Speaker 1: You see, you can't remain solvent if you do that.

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Speaker 6: Williams's attorney McGregor Scott releasing this statement this afternoon quote.

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Speaker 1: How appropriate today. I wonder if he changes his name on Cinco de Mayo.

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Speaker 6: Williams's attorney McGregor Scott, releasing this statement this afternoon.

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Speaker 4: Quote.

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Speaker 6: Jobs at Miss Williamson's level in the Governor's office provide very little opportunity for time off the crew.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, so Gavin's a slave driver.

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Speaker 2: How about all the times were Gavin's not even in the state because he's out there campaigning.

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Speaker 1: He never even shows up to work himself. How in the world can you allege that he's forcing his staff to burn the midnight oil he's not there.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, we need to know how many people work in the governor's office and what exactly it is they do.

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Speaker 6: Jobs at miss Williamson's level in the governor's office provide very little opportunity for time off. The compensation she earned was paid in full compliance with California state law. It's that simple end quote.

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Speaker 1: So there you go.

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Speaker 2: Dana Williamson, upon leaving Gavin Newsom's office as she was being investigated by the FBI, got a big all payout sixty grand in vacation and administrative leave, and then a little trail off where she got like thirty grand a month just cause because we got plenty of cash, And they're alleging that Gavin stapled her to the office door. How in the world could a man who's never there force you to be in the office twenty four to seven unless you put a keg in there or something and told you to have fun. H eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two.

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Speaker 1: If you'd like to email the show, you can do so. Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com and Randy ear monitor in the mail bag, Dan.

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Speaker 2: Writes in at n he don't like show at gmail dot com. Randy, I'm not a guy that likes to make threats, but if you don't isolate Katie Porter, saying I'm pulling into the bakery for the board, I am boycotting your program.

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Speaker 4: I'm pulling in to the bakery.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how many food drops do we have of her? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Of food drops? Well, let's see. Okay, I gotta go into my folder. I have lots of Katie drops, so many Katie drops. All right, let's see Katie Katie Katie Porter effing shot high pitch. I'm me like, please, little d Paul personal, I don't think that I think. I don't think I have any food drup Oh, I have won. I have Katie Porter going into the bakery.

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Speaker 4: I'm pulling in to the bakery.

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Speaker 1: And I have no you have three because she was also cutting carrots.

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Speaker 2: Oh, excuse me for a second. I forgot about the carrots. Where are my carrots, Katie Porter? Sorry, I'm cutting carrots. I can't Why can't I find it? I probably misspelled it. That's why, Katie Porter, I need to put this all on the wall.

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Speaker 1: It's so much easier to do this at home. By the way, we're light for a break. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. And Randy, you're keeping an eye on the mail bag.

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Speaker 2: Penny writes in at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com?

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Speaker 1: How could you forget about the carrots?

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Speaker 5: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots.

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Speaker 2: I apologize. That was the slowest I've ever been to grab that. What happened was I was searching my name in my giant folder under things that said Katie Porter.

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Speaker 1: But I saved that one. I just saved it.

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Speaker 2: As Katie carrots, so directify the situation. I went to the big wall where I can fire these things off quickly, and I deleted a whole bunch of people we don't play anymore, like Paul Ker, Coreyan and Kevin dal Leone, so I could make room.

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Speaker 3: For Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots and I'm pulling in to the bakery.

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Speaker 1: And who can smell it?

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Speaker 4: Right here?

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Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna finish with linen winter chicken dinner, because that would be the third food.

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Speaker 4: Cut win chicken dinner.

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Speaker 1: Have you been following all of this drama involving Caesar Chavez today? I have not what is going on with Caesar Chavez well. Allegations against Caesar Chavez involving abusive young women or miners have surfaced, leading the union he founded to cancel celebrations The California Labor Leader, Oh boy, they're canceling the holiday. The Caesar Chavez Foundation says Chavez allegedly quote engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior with women and minors during his time as UfW president. Quote. We are deeply shocked and saddened by what we are hearing, the foundation said in a statement, Boy, they're rolling over and waving the right light flag right away. Well, maybe there's something there, I guess. Maybe instead of asking all those girls to show their UfW card, he should have asked to see their ID, made sure they were of age. This would be quite something. You know what it is. It's hypocrisy, That's what it is. Hypocrisy. And why is that? Because he was asking all of us not to eat grapes all the time, he was enjoying the nectar of nature's forbidden fruit. All right, we're going to need to move on now, all right. So the Oscars were this weekend, and we of course have the Oscar celebration in Hollywood each and every year in a mall by the way, And I don't think people from outside of this area understand that we have the Oscars in the same place where you can get oh, I don't know, like a hot dog on a stick.

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Speaker 2: The Hollywood and Highland Mall, although it has a new name now and I always forget, it includes the Dolby Theater and the Davenbusters, And the Dolby Theater is where they hold the Oscars.

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Speaker 1: The Davenbusters not so much. I wonder if anyone has an after party there.

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Speaker 2: Now, of course, when oscars take place in Hollywood, they close down a major portion of Hollywood Boulevard at Highland, pretty much from Highland to Librea. So that's where all the festivities are going to be. That's where the red carpet is. But what also happened was the city of Los Angeles decided to put up all kinds of no parking and no stopping signs in all of the streets around Hollywood and Highland, the little side streets where a lot of people in Hollywood, that's the only place they can park because their apartments don't have any parking.

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Speaker 1: And there were.

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Speaker 2: Tons and tons and tons of tickets being issued and cars being towed to the tune of four hundred dollars a pop. And some residents are alleging there were no signs that said don't park there.

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Speaker 1: You know that happened to me once. Oh yeah, when al Rantell and I went up to San Quentin for the execution of Tuki Williams, I was the one in charge of parking the rental car outside the prison and that's when Jesse Jackson, God Rest his Soul and the others showed up for the protest and there was such a large mob of people outside the prison. They decided that they wanted to clear all the cars. Well, they decided that they wanted to clear all the cars when Al and I went to lunch because we did the morning show and then we were going to come back to do the evening show from outside the prison. So we're coming back from lunch and we're in the cab and we're pulling around the corner and Al goes, where's the car? And I said, well, I parked it right over there, and he goes, well, it's not there anymore. They towed the car.

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Speaker 2: They towed the car, and we actually know exactly where that car ended up.

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Speaker 8: That was an Altamont altma.

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Speaker 1: Foright. Oh please move it now, you're blocking someone. God rest your soul, Jesse. We were stuck there by the way. We had to walk on the shoulder of the freeway to get out of there.

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Speaker 2: For mar on the Oscars towing night mayor affecting all kinds of residents in Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: Here is NBC.

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Speaker 9: LA right, Melissa, thank you New at six. The Oscars were no party for dozens of drivers in Hollywood. They had a pretty frustrating and expensive weekend with many of their cars being towed from neighborhoods near the theater.

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Speaker 2: Which I understand you are closing off all access to Hollywood and Highland. But what do you do when closing all the car parking on Wilcox.

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Speaker 1: Well, you need a lot of room because you have all the environmentalists showing up by themselves in a great, big stretch limousine.

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Speaker 9: NBC four is Alex Rozier live right now in Hollywood, with the warning signs Alex that may or may not have been posted.

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Speaker 10: Exactly.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Colleen, we're about a half mile from the Dolby Theater right now on Wilcox, and they towed cars up and down this street on Sunday morning. We're going to turn you around here because they still have these toe away temporary no stopping signs here on Willcox. But if you come this way and down on Yukka, even closer to the theater, they don't have any of those no stopping signs that we could see today.

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Speaker 1: So some people who.

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Speaker 8: Were towed find this a bit random and unfair to toe the hard working people of Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's editorializing to say the people of Hollywood are hardworking.

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Speaker 1: By the way, when your car gets towed, it is a nightmare to get it back. Yep.

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Speaker 2: Apparently what was happening here too was the signs were so confusing that even the parking enforcement officers didn't understand why they were supposed to write tickets. But someone told them to.

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Speaker 8: Today I did today at Hollywood tow. Their line was long and their garage was packed with cars. I spoke with the frustrated Edwin Irozari moments after he got his Prius back. What did you just pay to get your car up four hundred and nine dollars? Edwin said his car was towed at Hollywood and Vine Sunday before the oscars.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday, two o'clock in the afternoon.

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Speaker 6: They tow my car for no reason.

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Speaker 9: There was no signs, there was no temporary parking, there was nothing.

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Speaker 2: Edwin wasn't the if there's no signs and we have plenty of camera footage of everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Now this guy might have a lawsuit. Okay, if you live in Hollywood and your car gets towed when you think it's parked legally, is your immediate thought that the car got towed or that the car got stolen stolen.

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Speaker 8: Edwin wasn't the only person towed in Hollywood Sunday. Plenty of people on Wilcox Avenue shot video of tow trucks taking cars up and down the street around eight am Sunday morning.

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Speaker 2: I would also like to point out, because this is Los Angeles, the tow trucks will be out in full force for the big Hollywood party. But we can't tow any of these derelict, homeless RVs that are littering the streets of LA.

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Speaker 1: How does that happen? They're literally dumping human waste into city streets and city sewers, and the city tells us there's nothing we can do about it. Yet Brad Pitt needs to pull up in his limousine and oh boy, do they clear the way.

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Speaker 2: This city can clean it out itself up whenever it wants to, it chooses not to.

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Speaker 1: Around eight am Sunday.

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Speaker 11: Morning, I walk outside and I see one car getting towed there, another here, two more down that street, and six more getting towed down that way.

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Speaker 8: LA Dot said they posted temporary no parking signs a minimum of forty eight hours in advance. They added quote for the twenty twenty six Academy Awards.

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Speaker 1: LA DOT posted.

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Speaker 8: Signs to restrict parking on certain days to facilitate both events set up and for the awards ceremony. Neighbor's Impact did find it unfair.

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Speaker 7: An event that caters so much to the wealthy in an industry that has so much money, when they hold this event, they tow the people that live in Hollywood, which this is not a high rents neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: Most of the people I know, some of those side streets are real dumpy. And you know what the worst part is, I tuned in a little bit for the Oscars. I didn't watch the whole thing. I didn't recognize ninety percent of the people there. It's not like the old days when they would show the Oscars on television and you recognized every face in the crowd. Remember back when they had all the great divas like Betty Davis, Joan Crawford and the great Don Notts.

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Speaker 11: Most of the people I know who work here, they work full time, probably overtime, multiple jobs, and to charge them four undred dollars again in the name of the Oscars, it's kind of.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of messed up.

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Speaker 2: Saw not to mention that Hugo put in a road diet on Hollywood Boulevard, so going up and down that street now is a nightmare.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that was helpful, Bow.

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Speaker 8: We saw several no parking signs here on Wilcox Avenue, about a half mile.

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Speaker 1: From the Dolby Theater.

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Speaker 8: We didn't see any no parking signs still up on several streets that are closer to the theater. So we asked LA Dot where are they towed and why? But they didn't respond what are you feeling right now of shiit? Regardless, it's a frustrating day for Edwin. He says he's retired and disabled and this tow bill hurts.

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Speaker 9: I just think it's a disgrace to the community, to the people that live here, support this community into Stone well.

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Speaker 2: And especially when when you look at how Hollywood is built, so many of those cars are parked because that's the only place they can park because their buildings have no parking.

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Speaker 1: Well, given how aggressive they were, this disabled guy should just be happy they didn't tow his wheelchair. It should not happen.

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Speaker 8: La Doot wants drivers to know that they can request a hearing an appeal if they believe that your toe was done wrongfully. Edwin said, that's exactly what he plans to do.

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Speaker 2: He says, he not so in order to deal with your four hundred dollars, toe build now you've got to drive to downtown LA and you have to deal with that parking nightmare in order to fight this in court.

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Speaker 1: No, it's a nightmare.

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Speaker 8: Edwin said, that's exactly what he plans to do. He says he did not see any signs yesterday. He thinks he's going to be getting his four hundred dollars back when he says he'll win his appeal. Reporting live in Hollywood, I'm Alex Rosier, NBC four New.

00:30:21
Speaker 1: So there you go.

00:30:22
Speaker 2: The residents of Hollywood got towed left and right, even when there weren't any signs saying don't park here.

00:30:29
Speaker 1: Let's go to ed in Lake County.

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Speaker 12: Ed Hello, gentlemen, that he's day to you. So, I just wanted to broach on the I don't want to broach on this Chawvez topic. You know, this last year I saw a very interesting YouTube documentary about what really made him so beloved and so successful at that point. The unfettered rampant immigration made it so. The wages of these forwarmworkers was so devastated low they couldn't complain and demand the prevailing wage because there was always someone readily available to replace them. Caesar Chavez was the individual that organized a group of thugs to go into the front era of the desert in Mexico on that side of the border and physically assault me intimidated non union members from legally immigrating into the country. Now, this YouTube documentary I had seen this year, I've been speaking about a lot with my coworkers and informing of the great work Caesar Chavez was doing as a unofficial ice agent for the union. So you know, I just thought i'd bring that to your attention. I can't remember what it was called, but just look it up on YouTube, dig around for it. I'm sure you'll find it. And I'm going to celebrate Caesar Chavez, even though I never really did before, because I really appreciate the fact he understood that an unfettered amount of immigration is debt strumental to the immigrants that are here. They want to have a livable situation and not be completely dominated by just millions and millions and millions making it so they can't get a fair living So I'm gonna thank Caesar Chravas today on Patty's Day, and I'm gonna thank you guys as I always do, for the excellent show you did five days a week, and you know I even I even listened to it every now and again on the weekend.

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Speaker 1: There we go, Well, thank you for the call. Let's go to Joe in Santa Monica. Joe, Hello, I'm a ditto of that call. I was just going to make it really short. I realized that I think most people know that Caesar Chavis was against illegal immigration, and the fact that they were able to remove him from a holiday, maybe they're they're appreciative that too, because they don't honor him. And that was all I had to say. I think this is the first HOLI since Columbus Day that's been officially canceled. Yeah, what are they going to do if they find out that Santo was getting fresh with some of the elves?

00:33:14
Speaker 9: I don't know.

00:33:15
Speaker 12: Thank you, John By.

00:33:17
Speaker 1: Thank you. Can you think of any other holidays that have been canceled? I'm sure there'll be more. Well, you just wait until the carnivore diet people get in charge, and they're going to cancel National Pancake Day. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. Whether we're talking about the fraud, the waste and abuse going on here in California, or the crime blodder stories that are bonkers, or any of the other problems in our state where we live, it lead you to believe, okay, well, what neighborhoods are still good? What cities are still livable? And randy? There was actually a contest or, I guess I should say, a poll that was done to try to determine what is the most liveable city, the best city to live in in the state of California.

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Speaker 2: An organization called Liveability has chosen Elk Grove as the best place to live in the state of California. For more, let's go to CBS in Sacramento.

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Speaker 8: Well back, how about a reason to celebrate in Elk Grove.

00:34:34
Speaker 1: The city's being named the best place to live in California.

00:34:37
Speaker 10: Tonight we're getting reaction from the mayor and neighbors with what's so great about Elk Grove? Finding an outdoor place to enjoy the nice weather is no problem in Elk Grove.

00:34:48
Speaker 2: I will say I don't recall any recent blotters involving Elk Grove.

00:34:53
Speaker 1: No, I don't think that city has ever made the blotter.

00:34:55
Speaker 10: The city has more than one hundred parks.

00:34:58
Speaker 1: We love the trails.

00:35:00
Speaker 10: Art Feesl has lived here for thirty years and brings his dog Mini out to play nearly every day.

00:35:06
Speaker 1: I love to be outdoors.

00:35:08
Speaker 4: The parks are great.

00:35:09
Speaker 2: So it's a place where you can really enjoy the beauty of California.

00:35:13
Speaker 1: I'm in it's a suburb of Sacramento. Correct. Yes.

00:35:18
Speaker 10: The abundance of green space is just one of the reasons why Elk Grove is being named the best place to live in California, according to liveability dot com, which also names it the sixth best city in the West.

00:35:32
Speaker 7: I think it's great.

00:35:33
Speaker 9: Man a lot of wonderful people here.

00:35:35
Speaker 3: It's a friendly city.

00:35:36
Speaker 4: It's growing a lot.

00:35:37
Speaker 1: It has everything that we need. It's great that do you have a costco. Yet you need a costco to be the best city to live in California.

00:35:45
Speaker 7: It's great that others recognize the greatness and now grow.

00:35:48
Speaker 10: The top honor is no surprise for Mayor Bobby sing Allen.

00:35:52
Speaker 7: Our residents enjoy a high quality of life, which was one of the best benchmarks of the metrics that they used.

00:35:58
Speaker 10: The city gets high marks for its public schools and level of home ownership, which is seventy four percent.

00:36:04
Speaker 1: Wow, I bet you there's a lot of fans of Prop thirteen in Elk Grove.

00:36:10
Speaker 2: Statewide, it's like getting under fifty percent, and in Los Angeles we're now a majority renter city and that's not good percent percent.

00:36:20
Speaker 10: Elk Grove is also recognized for its diversity, which is celebrated with a number of cultural festivals every year.

00:36:27
Speaker 7: We are a majority minority city.

00:36:29
Speaker 8: We are a city welcome to.

00:36:31
Speaker 10: All, but there is some room for improvement. A survey by niche dot com shows there could be more nightlife, something the city is considering in its historic main street district, and afford a buildings.

00:36:42
Speaker 1: Right, what time does Elkgrove go to bed? Eight pm? Oh, I think the kitchen's closed at seven thirty. It's not a problem for me anymore. Ten years ago it would have been.

00:36:52
Speaker 10: And affordability of housing is another area where the city gets just an average grade.

00:36:58
Speaker 7: As we expand south, there'll be a number of new opportunities for home ownership.

00:37:01
Speaker 10: Elk Grove's population has grown by nearly twenty thousand people in just the last decade. The mayor says she's ready to move up even higher on the annual Best Places list as the city gets bigger.

00:37:15
Speaker 1: There you go.

00:37:15
Speaker 2: And by the way, the only other California city to make that list was Clovis in the Central Valley.

00:37:23
Speaker 1: You know what city I think is incredibly beautiful and well run and safe and has a lot of great dining options. What's that Huntington Beach? Oh yeah, one hundred percent. Very expensive, but it's a good time down there.